Press Release

On 19 August 2010, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) issued its updated Consolidated List of Individuals and Entities subject to the travel ban and/or the assets freeze.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly on 19 August:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly Churkin (Russian Federation):

Youth from all regions of the world came together on 14 to 18 August in the Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to participate in the second edition of the Global Model United Nations Conference 2010 organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information on the theme “Towards an Alliance of Civilizations — Bridging Cultures to Achieve Peace and Development”.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Global Model United Nations, in Kuala Lumpur, 14 August:

The United Nations is launching the Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification (2010-2020) today, an 11-year-long effort to raise awareness and action to improve the protection and management of the world’s drylands, home to a third of the world’s population and which face serious economic and environmental threats.

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Second International Conference on Climate, Sustainability and Development in Semi-arid Regions on the launch of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification, held in Fortaleza, Brazil, 16 August:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: